On Wednesday, April 23rd I had woken up around 4:30 am and went to the bathroom. I went right back to bed and woke up again around 5:00am and was enjoying laying in bed for a few minutes before I had to get up to get ready for work. At 5:05am I felt a gush and instantly I knew my water had broken. I jumped up and ran into the bathroom. When I sat on the toilet some more gushed out. I checked it and it was clear. I grabbed a towel and went out and sat on the couch. DH was outside so I was waiting for him to come back in when I had my first contraction (5:36am). DS1 got up and came and sat by me. I told him “today was a special day because the baby was going to come out of my belly”. He said “then why are you still here?” LOL (I had warned him that if he woke up one day and Aunt Heather was sleeping on the couch then Mommy and Daddy were at the hospital having the baby.) It was really cute. When DH came inside I had DS1 tell him it was time.

I had a few more contractions but they were very irregular. I had one more gush of water and a little leaking but that eventually stopped too. I started wondering if it was really my water (I think I just didn’t want to get too excited and have them tell me I peed my pants) I called my mom to let her know it would probably be today but she could go to work and I would let her know when we were going into the hospital. We got DS2 up and got the kids ready to go to the sitters. DH took them and by the time he got home, it was 8:30am and the contractions were still very irregular (10-30 min apart). At 9:00am when the doctor’s office opened, I called them and they had me go to L&D.

I was hooked up to the monitors at 9:45am and that is when I started to get regular contractions every 2 min lasting 1-1.5 min long. It was painful but not unbearable. After they got a 30 min strip they checked to make sure it was my water that broke, (by this time I was pretty sure it was cuz it was gushing out again) and it was. They checked me and I was 6/7. I was soooo excited to hear this! I had only been having regular contractions for about 45 min. I called my mom to let her know they were keeping me and she need to get to the hospital and DH called his mom to have her come up. They started an IV and I was moved to a LD room.

By the time I got there I was having NONSTOP contractions. By the time one would stop peaking, the next one would start peaking. They wanted to get another 20 minute strip but the contractions were so intense that I couldn’t stay still enough. The monitors kept showing the baby’s heart rate in the 90’s but they thought it was probably my heart rate that it was picking up. So they had me put the thing on my finger to track my heart rate and make sure the baby’s wasn’t going that low (it wasn’t). The monitors ended up being on me until I started pushing and then they just gave up and took them off me. I stood for a long time with one leg up on the bed but then I started shaking and needed to change positions. I got on the bed on my knees and leaned against the back of the bed. At this point I noticed that I was literally dripping sweat. Soon after this I started feeling a lot of pressure. The doctor wanted to check me but it took forever to get flipped over because of the nonstop contractions. When she finally checked me (I have no idea what time it was) I was at 8 cm. I got back into the other position and a little later I felt like I had to push. The doc said to go ahead and try it out. It felt so great to push! I pushed for about 15 min like that and then decided to flip over and lay on my side. (The doc said I could push in whatever position I wanted! That was really cool!) I ended up pushing on my side for 10 min. It was the most amazing feeling pushing and feeling the baby move down with each push! The doc asked me if I wanted her to cut an episiotomy since she was coming out face up and it would take a while to get her out. I wish I wouldn’t have said yes but at the time it seemed like a good idea. So Mikayla Ann was born at 12:47pm 7 hours and 42 minutes after my water broke, after about 3 hours of active labor, 25 minutes of pushing.

After I pushed her out, she was put right up on my chest and DH cut the cord. She was taken over to the warmer and wiped down and weighed. They brought her right back over to me and I breastfed her right away. She didn’t latch on quite as good as my boys but after a minute she got it. I pushed the placenta out a few minutes later and then was stitched up while DH and the grandmas held the baby. They ended up giving me a shot of Pitocin in the leg because my IV had come out.

I had them show me her placenta since I had never seen one before. Very interesting! Mikayla didn’t leave my side after that except to do her hearing test. We left the hospital at about 2:00pm the next day.

This was a wonderful birth! I wouldn’t change anything except the episiotomy. I really want to do it again, although DH doesn’t want anymore kids. We’ll see. ;) I think if we do have more, I might try a birth center. :)

10-10-2008, 05:08 PM

lynzb

well we arrived at the hospital at 7.45 am and bloods and stuff where taken and i was put into a gown then we jus had to wait on the theatre being free.

we were called for at 10.40am and went down to the labour ward were we spoke to the anethistist and he told us what would happen.

went to the theatre at 11am and got my spinal and all wired up then the surgeon arrived.

Josef was then born at 11.41am and unlike the rest he was kept in the room with us were he was weighed and checked.
the MW noticed he was making funnny noises when breathing that wouldnt stop so she called for the peads. they checked him and said they would come back in an hour to see if it had rectified itself.

when they came back it was just the same so it was a choice of special care or the ward to see what happens. the mw decided we could try the ward so we went back up there about 3 pm.

finally his breathing settled just before robert left and hes been ok since.

so all in all an easy birth

born 11.41 am
weight0 5lb 12oz

03-23-2009, 09:22 AM

StateChick

I did originally post this when she was born, but here it is to go in this thread...

Spinal allows epi to settle in a little bit into my hips but evidently my body blocked it from the sacral region of my pelvic area...OWWWWW!

3 am - 10 cm and 100% effaced! - No urge to push yet.

Contrax every 2 minutes or so (they cut back the pitocin a little because of my pain) - made me stop hitting my epi button for an hour or so. :mad:

4:30 am - this began my hour of pushing. DH and nurse were FANTASTIC. It felt like such a relief to push. I continue vomitting during this phase of labor.

5:30 am - nurses tell me to stop pushing. Baby is ready, but doctor is nowhere to be found.

Nurses continue to fill the room (there were maybe 6 or 7 of them)

DH and think our nurse is about to deliver the baby...she literally had her hand up in me "holding the baby in" - sounds horrible, but they were monitoring the baby, of course.

5:55 am - doctor arrives - I push through one contraction

5:57 am - Cadence Mae arrives

I immediately saw the LO was a SHE instead of the HE I had been thinking all along. I am in love. Had no idea she would be so big though!

Not something I want to go through again any time soon. My body resists pain medication like nobody's business and next time I will just know that I need the spinal first to allow my body to relax enough to accept the epi. Doctors think that my sacral region blocking the epi was a fluke and won't necessarily happen again.